Combined car stake and bunk.



W. HOUGHTON. GOMBINED OAR STAKE AND BUNK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11,1911.

1,622,084. Patented Apr. 2; 1912.

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

COMBINED CAR STAKE AND BUNK.

Application filed November 11, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 659,741.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, WILLARD I'IOVGHTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of 'ashington, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Car Stakes andBlinks, of which the following a specification."

This invention relates to the bunks and stakes for logging cars and itsobject is the improvement in devices of this class whereby they arerendered more etticien't as well as more convenient tooperate.

The invention consists in the novel contruction in and combination ofparts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 stake therefor constructedaccording to the present invention, the car-stake being shown inoperative position. Fig. 2 is a view of the same shown partly in sideelevation and partly in longitudinal section with the stake ininoperative condition. Fig. 3 is a plan view with the parts occupyingthe positions in which illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. t is a crosssectional view taken through 4-4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewof a rail-cluiir upon which the bunk members are seated. Fig. (5 is aperspective view of the stake support shown detached. Fig. 7 is aperspective view of the stake.

According to this invention, I provide a bunk ha ving a channel in itstop and is desirably constructed of two parallel railway track rails 10and 10' supported adjacent their ends upon chairs 11 and 11 and which,in turn, are secured to a our platform or the bolster of a car-truck.Positioned in the channel at an end of the bunk is a block 12 havinghingcdly connected by a pivotal pin 13 to its outer end a leaf 14. Thisleaf is recessed by the provision of a transverse groove 15 affordingwalls 15 and 1. at the inner and outer sides of the same. Said block isadapted for movement lengthwise ot' the bunk. To effect such movement Iemploy a lever 16 fulcrumcd intermediate its length by a pin 17 to thebunk and extending through an aperture provided in the web 10 of therail 10, as best shown in Fig. 4. The inner arm of said lever is connccted to the block by a pin 18 (Fig. 6) and the outer arm is connectedto a rod 19 ex-- tending to near the opposite end of the bunk whereatthe rod is connected by a pin 20 to an operating lever 21 which isfulcrumed by a pin 22 to the bunk. The arm of the operating leveropposite to that which is connected to said rod serves as a handlewhereby the rod is manipulated to actuate the block 12.

The car stake 23 consists in a substantially rectangular plate of awidth equal to or slightly less than the distance between the webs 10 ofthe respective bunk-rails and of a thickness at the bottom to enable thesame to be inserted between the walls 15 and 15 of said leaf. Toaccommodate the heads 10 of the rails, said stake is provided withrecesses 23.

24 is a transversely disposed bolt positioned at a distance from the endof the bunk and having its ends secured in the rail webs 10 as shown inFig. l. A flexible connection, such as a chain 25, is connected at oneend to the bolt 24: and has its other end connected to the stake nearthe upper end of the latter.

The operation of the invention is as follows: Assuming that the stake 23is in its operative position, as represented in Figs. 1 and 3, the stakeis released by the operator moving the lever 21 from the positionwhereat it is shown by "full lines (Fig. 3) to that indicated by brokenlines (1. in the View. Such movement of the lever 2L aii'ects the rod 19to cause the connected lever 16 to push the block 12 outwardly andthereby prot rude the leaf 14 beyond the end of the bunk together withthe lower end of the stake which is shoved outwardly with the block. Theleaf then swings downwardly and the unsupported stake falls into theposition in which it is represented in Fig. 2 and suspended by the chain25, as shown. With the stake in this position logs may be loaded orunloaded from the bunk over the side of the car without any interferencewith respect to the stake or of the chain which is partially housedwithin the bunk channel and hangs from the bunk end. To restore thestake to its operative position the stake is raised clear of theblock-leaf 15 which is then swung upward and pushed for a short distanceinto the bunk channel, the

lever and rod connections yielding accordrail heads 10 extending intothe stake recesses 23. The operator now goes to the opposite side of thecar and swings the lever 21 into the full line position in F ig. 3resulting in the block 12 being further moved to drag the lower end ofthe stake into the bunk channel while the upper end of the stake isswung outwardly about a fulcrum afforded by the ends of the bunkrailheads 10 hen the lever 21 is swung into the referred to'full lineposition (Fig. the pins and 22 are brought into alinement with the axesof the lever 21and the rod 19 to lock the same against any displacementdue to a force exerted in a direction axially with the rod.Consequently, the block 12 is releasably maintained in position to holdthe stake upright.

It is to be noted that a stake is released by an actuating lever at theend of thebunk opposite to that to which the stake is secured wherebythe operator is not endangered by logs in the unloading of a car.

In practice stakes are employed at both ends of a bunk if the cars areto be'loaded or unloaded from either side of a car.

lVhat I claim, is"

1. The combination of a car bunk comprising two rail members, a blockhaving a hinged leaf movable lengthwise of the bunk between the railsthereof, means to effect the inward and outward movements of said blockwith respect to the bunk, a stake adapted to seat within a receptacleprovided in the aforesaid block-leaf, and a flexible connection betweenthe bunk and the upper end of the stake. v

2. The combination of a car-bunk provided with a channel, a blockpositioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected to the block, astake connected by a chain with the bunk and adapted to be supported bysaid leaf only when the latter is positioned within the bunk channel.

3. The combination of a car-bunk provided with a channel, a blockpositioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected tov the block, alever connected to said block,.

a rod connected from one end to said lever, an actuating lever fulcrumedto the bunk and having an arm pivotally connected to the other end ofsaid rod whereby the last named lever may be swung into position toprevent any. endwise movement to sand rod and thereby rendering thefirst named lever temporarily inoperative to afford motion to the block,or vice versa, and a stake connected by a chain with the bunk andadapted to be supported by said leaf only when the latter is positionedwithin the bunk channel.

l. The combination with a car-bunk provided with a channel, a blockpositioned in said channel, a leaf hingedly connected to the block, astake connected by a chain with the bunk and adapted to be supported byWILLARD HOUGHTON.

lVitnesses HORACE BARNES, E. PETERSON.

